October 19-21
20-21 | Leadership Summit & Roundtables
19 | Workshops & Dinner
Westin Southfield Detroit
Analytics, Data and Service: Fueling a Smarter Customer-First World
Optimize data. Accelerate decisions. Elevate service. Join industry leaders to explore transformative strategies, breakthrough analytics, and real-world applications that move the needle—where customer focus meets operational excellence.
The Must Attend Summit To Transform Your Aftermarket & Aftercare Services Roadmap
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Aftersales - Aftercare Services - Warranty Excellence
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Engineering Manager
Magna Seating
President
WD3 Automotive
Senior Solutions Engineer
Agolo
Business Architect
Tavant
Lead Product Engineer
Magna Seating
Global Warranty Manager
Valmont Industries
Supplier Warranty Recovery Manager
Cummins
Warranty Operations Director & 5pp team!
MSX International
Senior Group Manager Dealer Tech Support
Hyundai
Senior Warranty Manager
Nissan
Sr. Program Manager, Quality Products & Services
AIAG
Global Quality Engineering
General Motors
Co-Founder
Amber Technologies
Warranty Performance Manager
General Motors
Director Global Warranty Systems
Cummins
Director of Warranty
Kenworth Truck
Director – Disputes, Claims, & Investigations
Stout
Executive Director - Global Warranty Quality
Cummings
Vice President Business Development
Upstream
Warranty Systems Integration Specialist
Ford Motor Company
Warranty Program Manager & 3pp team!
Volvo & Mack Trucks
Warranty Manager
Peterbilt Motors
Global Quality Director
Sensata
VP Manufacturer Relations
Aclaró AI
Sensata Technologies
Quality Director & 4pp team!
Director – Disputes, Claims, & Investigations Stout
Schedule At A Glance
As the Summit grows, MAPconnected remains committed to developing fresh thematic tracks and interactive formats, shaped by the evolving needs of our members and featured business partners.
Leadership Summit: Powering Your Service & Warranty Roadmap
AI-Service Warranty Lifecycle Management (AI-SWLM) Think Tank Initiatives:
10/19-21
Tech Expo Exhibitors & Sponsors
10/20 & 21
Workshops & VIP Dinner
10/19 2-5:00pm Workshop Options
10/19 6-9:00pm VIP Dinner
Exclusive for Speakers, Members, Sponsors & Special Guests!
*Purchased tickets available
Full Summit Agenda
Explore the Summit agenda, Monday through Wednesday, session by session. The titles, formats, and speakers below reflect the current agenda with exciting updates and refinements continuing as we build toward October. See what’s taking shape and what’s ahead.
Benchmark maturity across governance, technology, financial performance and strategic alignment. Leave with an assessment framework and actionable recommendations.
Garde Solutions · Jimmy Bynum, CEO
Map the Warranty Lifecycle. Identify Process Gaps. Drive Better Results. See how data, automation, and AI can improve warranty speed, accuracy, and performance. Leave with a FREE copy of the 2026 Warranty Management Study.
MR Insights · Mike Roberts, President
AI delivers greater value when it connects data, decisions and workflows across the warranty lifecycle. We will explore a future state where AI connects customer concerns, diagnostics, coverage and claims to reduce friction, disputes and rework for dealers, OEMs and customers. Delivered through an AI In The Field Panel and AI Innovation Showcases.
General Motors · Josh Cohen, Global Warranty Strategy Manager
The Car Conservatory · Tyler Betthauser, Founder
Ford Motor Company · Michael Goebelbecker, Technical Hotline Operations Manager
Sponsored by the AI-Service Warranty Lifecycle Management (AI-SWLM) Think Tank
Tech Tank Presentations: Upstream DETECT · Circuitry.ai LEARN · Certum DECIDE · ServiceNow ACT
MR Insights · Mike Roberts, President
A cross-lifecycle discussion of the quality, warranty, dealer and trust blind spots that keep organizations from turning service and warranty signals into action — why quality fails, whether warranty teams manage claims or learn from them, who dealer processes are really designed around, and who owns the relationship when something goes wrong.
Ford Motor Company · Jennifer Jones Wheeler, Former Global Lifetime Warranty Chief (Quality & Warranty Blind Spots)
Kia America · James Nardini, Warranty Operations National Manager (Dealer Blind Spot)
JD Power · Kristin Kolodge, Former VP Research Product Development (Trust Blind Spot)
Where processing breaks down, and how expertise, automation and shared standards can improve accuracy and speed without adding dealer burden. Warranty processing is becoming more complex for both dealers and OEMs from workforce shortages and aging systems to increasingly detailed claims, new vehicle technologies, audits, and rising costs. This panel discusses where warranty processing breaks down, what high-performing dealers do differently, and how OEMs can improve compliance while maintaining a positive dealer experience.
General Motors · Tim Turvey, Former Global VP Customer Care and Aftersales
DeNooyer Chevrolet · Tim Kellogg, Service Manager
WarrCloud · Paul Whitworth, Chief Operating Officer
Role-based certification, real-time knowledge in the workflow, and guided tools that simplify dealer execution.
General Motors · Chelsea Alarie, Global Warranty Project Coordinator
Nissan North America · Victor Garcia,Deputy GM Warranty Group
International · Steve Olejniczak, Associate Director Warranty
Kia America · James Nardini, Warranty Operations National Manager
Using warranty visibility to reveal broader dealership behaviors, build executive buy-in, and address turnover, outsourcing and the evolving administrator role.
Kia America · Marijo Prodanic, Director, Warranty Operations & Technical Assistance
How new OEMs can create flexible warranty channels that deliver convenience for customers while maintaining control, compliance, and claim accuracy.
Slate Auto · Bryan Tracy, Warranty Manager
Drawing on insights from the Purchasing & Supplier Cost Sharing Xchange Group, explore practical ways to overcome competing priorities, organizational friction, and knowledge gaps and align stakeholders around shared goals that drive meaningful action.
Toyota Motor · Jim Holloway, Former GM Purchasing
Stellantis · Daryl Kreskowiak, Director NA Warranty Recovery
General Motors · Eric Bloink, Warranty Performance Manager Interior and Exterior
Upstream · Arnon Shafir, VP Data Intelligence & AI
Turning fragmented post-sale data into product and business intelligence.
Safety Research & Strategies · Sean Kane, President & Founder
The growing complexity of warranty inside the organization.
Cummins · Graham Swan, Executive Director Global Warranty
JD Power · Kristin Kolodge, Former VP Research Product Management
Stellantis · Bruce Williams, Head of Global Process & Methods-Supplier Quality Development
Hardware, software, cloud infrastructure and OEM platforms create shared responsibility for failure.
General Motors · Jose Clemente, Manager GPSC Warranty Performance
Jimmy will share results from the Financial Products & Insurance Xchange Group’s maturity assessment over the past year, revealing key strengths, gaps, and anonymized peer benchmarks across governance, technology, financial performance, and strategic alignment.
Garde Solutions · Jimmy Bynum, CEO
Eight parallel working discussions comparing practices, identifying gaps and surfacing practical next steps:
Reception 5:45–6:30 PM · Restaurants 7:00–9:00 PM · Request Dinner invites: info@mapconnected.com
1. REPUBLICA · Sedgwick
2. VINSETTA · Advantage Technical (Full)
3. PRIME 10 · Circuity.ai
4. FISHBONES · WarrCloud
5. NIKOLAS · ServiceNow
6. THE BEVERLY · Syncron (Full)
Pull up a chair and dive into group discussions about practical AI use cases.
ServiceNow · Upstream · Pegasystems · Circuitry.ai
MR Insights · Mike Roberts, President
Explore the business need, how the two organizations worked together, and what they learned from developing a common approach to service appointment data.
Ford Motor Company · Tim Bares, Business Analytics Specialist
STAR · Steve Zadoorian, Executive Director
What should AI decide, what should it recommend, and where is human judgment essential?
Sedgwick · Wayne Mitchell, Senior Vice President Global Business Development
Truepic · Craig Stack, President & Co-Founder
Orchestrating warranty prevention at the point of repair with real-time AI agents, early risk insight and governed intervention.
Pegasystems · Mark Abbott, Client Executive
A candid look at applying AI in a live claims operation to transform time-consuming warranty claim reviews by connecting evidence, coverage, repair information, history, and decision logic. The discussion explores practical applications, lessons learned, and ROI as CARS Protection Plus moves toward governed automation to improve decision consistency, speed, accuracy, and adjuster productivity.
CARS Protection Plus · Lance LaCoe, President & CEO
Circuitry.ai · Ted Danner, Senior Director Warranty & Service Contract AI Solutions
James shares candid lessons from launching a new dealer portal and AI-powered customer chatbot—exploring what worked, what fell short, and what it takes to turn AI experimentation into practical results.
Bridgestone · James Kiriazes, Director Customer Quality Engineering
Examining four critical areas: the changing TAC model, today’s operational challenges, AI in technical assistance, and the operational wins that are shaping what comes next.
Ford Motor Company · Shane Schmitt, Director Technical Hotline
Toyota Motor North America · Russell Suzuki, Manager Field Technical Services
Kia America · David Brisky, Senior Techline Communications Manager
Hyundai Motor America · Miles Thompson, Senior Manager Advanced Diagnostics
Advantage Technical · Dan Dobbs, Solutions Architect Vehicle Services Group
The real journey of connecting technicians to the knowledge they need, the problems they set out to solve, and where it's headed next, including how AI is starting to shape that path forward.
ServiceNow · Jordan Tauriainen, Senior Director Global Automotive Go-To-Market
Crown Equipment · Ben Bergman, Director of Customer Service
High No Trouble Found (NTF) rates can signal a deeper problem: diagnostic processes, technician incentives, and service information are not keeping pace with increasingly complex vehicles. Tyler Betthauser examines why technicians struggle to isolate root cause, how legacy flat-rate structures can encourage parts swapping, and what OEMs and independent repairers can do to improve first-time fixes through better data access, service information, and diagnostic feedback.
The Car Conservatory · Tyler Betthauser, Founder
Connecting warranty, field-service, diagnostic, telematics and product data to move from “we have a failure” to “we understand what happened and what we should do about it.” Route Cause discussion continues in Field Services Connected Data Xchange Group launch at 2:15 PM.
Ford Motor Company · Jennifer Jones Wheeler, Former Global Lifetime Warranty Chief
General Motors · Tomlin Abraham, Assistant Director Warranty Performance
American Battery Solutions · Phillip Shmaon, Customer Warranty Engineer | Salman Khalid, Service Methods & Tools Engineer
Warranty Week · Drew Arnum, Editor In Chief
Software, connected vehicles and the new product lifecycle: updates, cybersecurity, OTA changes and long-term support.
Consumer Reports · Stacey Higginbotham, Policy Fellow
Each group splits its time between a member-selected priority and an end-to-end process walkthrough to identify high-impact AI opportunities with the AI-SWLM Think Tank:
Connect With Sponsors Powering Change & Innovation
Explore The Technologies, Strategies, And Solutions Transforming Service & Warranty Operations
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